Tuchel says he couldn’t sleep after defeat to Real Madrid

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has opened up on how he felt after his side lost to Spanish side Real Madrid in the UCL on Wednesday night.

The game ended in a 3-1 defeat, making it Chelsea’s second defeat in a row after they suffered 4-1 to Brentford last weekend.

‘I watched it when I got home and in the middle of the night. The next morning, I watched it here [at Cobham] and got angry again,’ Tuchel says.

‘I sat there in the middle of the night and the amount of chocolate I needed was immense so that I could go through the match again! It is not nice, and you start writing and you realise you are writing more and more minutes.

‘We have a certain way of explaining things, so you don’t forget it. But at some point you fast forward and you watch it in double speed so that it passes quicker. At some point you have to stop and take a walk through the kitchen and living room and come back and calm down,’ he adds.

‘It is good to watch it back because it makes you process it and then it makes you clearly understand what your message should be.’